LMAKseries
Curated by Richard Garet and Louky Keijsers Koning in consultation with Andy Graydon
LMAKseries: Monday February 15th at 7.30 pm, featuring the works of
Ian M. Fraser - Jesse Kudler,
Bonnie Jones - Suzanne Thorpe
and MPLD (Gill Arno)
Ian M. Fraser - Jesse Kudler,
Bonnie Jones - Suzanne Thorpe
and MPLD (Gill Arno)
LMAKseries furthers LMAKproject’s aim to integrate film, video, sound art, and media performance into the gallery’s mission and its vision of the contemporary landscape. One particular interest of the series is in exploring the ongoing inter-relationships between digital media, film, and music, whose practices may incorporate improvisation, computer processing, live interaction, narrative, sculptural and spatial aspects in ways that open our conception of both art practice and reception.
Jesse Kudler, born 1979, improvises on cheap consumer devices: a no-name electric guitar, hand-held cassette recorders, radios and transmitters, various small junk, and pedals/electronics. He uses a computer to assemble his recorded music. Kudler's work often operates on the extremes of volume, demonstrating an interest in the subtleties that can arise from intense softness or loudness, and it is marked by special attention to the stereo field. Recent interest has focused on both internal (electronic/radio) and external (microphone/speaker) feedback. Beyond simply exploring non-pitched sounds, Kudler investigates their use in creating improvised structure. Kudler attended public school until Wesleyan University, where he studied music with Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, and a little bit with Anthony Braxton, among others. In his various travels, Kudler has performed with Matt Bauder, Kyle Bruckmann, Chris Cogburn, James Coleman, Tim Feeney, Marcos Fernandes, Margarida Garcia, Brent Gutzeit, Horse Sinister, Bonnie Jones, Newton, Pauline Oliveros, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, Christine Sehnaoui, Mike Shiflet, Jason Soliday, Howard Stelzer, Christian Weber, Barry Weisblat, Ellen Weller, Matt Weston, Jack Wright, Jason Zeh, and many others. He has toured the United States several times. Jesse Kudler lives in Philadelphia. Current and recent projects include: HZL, an environmental electronics duo with Tim Albro; a duo with Ian Fraser; Tweeter, a treble-intensive noise trio with Alex Nagle and Eli Litwin; Benito Cereno (with Dustin Hurt, Chandan Narayan, Tim Albro, and Ian Fraser); duos with Chris Cogburn and Christian Weber; solo performance and recording; and various ad hoc groupings. Web presence: www.jessekudler.com
Ian M Fraser is an electronic musician living in Philadelphia, PA. He frequently collaborates with Jesse Kudler, Tim Albro, Faryal Maroof, and Reed Evan Rosenberg (Wet Fur). He also helps run the Philadelphia Sound Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting new works in composed and improvised electronic music. http://ianmfraser.wordpress.com
Gill Arno was born in Italy and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores areas where sound and image overlap, and is often constructed with found objects and found sound. In the project mpld he utilizes two old modified slide projectors to create performances where static images become pulsating and fade continuously into one another. The projector's mechanical sounds are tapped and manipulated to reveal their musical potential. Other activities include performances with the New York Phonographers and in various other collaborative and improvised settings. He publishes books, recordings and other multiples via his own imprint, Unframed Recordings, and runs Fotofono, a small studio in Brooklyn where sometimes public events are held. www.m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld | www.unframedrecordings.net | www.fotofono.net
Suzanne Thorpe is an electro-acoustic flutist, composer, educator and arts-activist who strives for breakthroughs in understanding via sonic signals. Thorpe extends her instrument with an ever-evolving set-up of analogue and digital software components, and her recent compositions are multi-channel works that employ psycho-acoustic phenomena, tuned filtering systems and feedback. As an improviser, Thorpe has performed with Chris Brown, Chris Cogburn, Rob Cambre, David Dove, Annette Krebs, Maggie Nicols, Pauline Oliveros, Gino Robair, Miya Masaoka, and Zeena Parkins among others. She has been a featured performer at San Francisco's Activating the Medium festival, performing with Zbigniew Karkowski, Anti-Matter, and Ulrich Krieger,at Issue Project Room's Floating Points festival and the No Idea festival. In another life, she was a founding member of Mercury Rev, with whom she composed, performed, recorded, produced and toured from 1989 through 1998, earning numerous critical accolades and a gold record for 1998's Deserters' Songs. At 2009's All Tomorrow's Parties Thorpe has recently re-emerged with the Mercury Rev alter-ego Harmony Rockets, performing their cult-classic Paralyzed Mind of the Arch Angel Void. Thorpe is currently one half of the flute and feedback duo thenumber46, with media artist Philip White, and can be heard as a member of The Wounded Knees, D2 Affinity with Chuck Johnson and occasionally mucking it up with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. www.suzannethorpe.com
Bonnie Jones is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with sound and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. In performances Jones plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals and uses projected text and live, improvised, writing techniques. Her collaborators include Joe Foster in Korea (English), Chris Cogburn & Liz Tonne (NINA), Andrea Neumann, and Andy Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a interdisciplinary performance group. Jones has performed her work in the US, Europe and Asia, and has appeared in the ErstQuake Festival (NYC), No Idea Festival (TX), Cha’ ak’ ab Paaxil Festival (Mexico), and High Zero Festival (MD). Jones has received several awards and recognitions including a Fulbright Fellowship, Meet the Composer grants, and an artist residency at STEIM in Amsterdam. She is currently an MFA candidate at Bard College’s Milton Avery School for Fine Arts. www.bonniejones.wordpress.com
Ian M Fraser is an electronic musician living in Philadelphia, PA. He frequently collaborates with Jesse Kudler, Tim Albro, Faryal Maroof, and Reed Evan Rosenberg (Wet Fur). He also helps run the Philadelphia Sound Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting new works in composed and improvised electronic music. http://ianmfraser.wordpress.com
Gill Arno was born in Italy and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores areas where sound and image overlap, and is often constructed with found objects and found sound. In the project mpld he utilizes two old modified slide projectors to create performances where static images become pulsating and fade continuously into one another. The projector's mechanical sounds are tapped and manipulated to reveal their musical potential. Other activities include performances with the New York Phonographers and in various other collaborative and improvised settings. He publishes books, recordings and other multiples via his own imprint, Unframed Recordings, and runs Fotofono, a small studio in Brooklyn where sometimes public events are held. www.m-i-c-r-o.net/mpld | www.unframedrecordings.net | www.fotofono.net
Suzanne Thorpe is an electro-acoustic flutist, composer, educator and arts-activist who strives for breakthroughs in understanding via sonic signals. Thorpe extends her instrument with an ever-evolving set-up of analogue and digital software components, and her recent compositions are multi-channel works that employ psycho-acoustic phenomena, tuned filtering systems and feedback. As an improviser, Thorpe has performed with Chris Brown, Chris Cogburn, Rob Cambre, David Dove, Annette Krebs, Maggie Nicols, Pauline Oliveros, Gino Robair, Miya Masaoka, and Zeena Parkins among others. She has been a featured performer at San Francisco's Activating the Medium festival, performing with Zbigniew Karkowski, Anti-Matter, and Ulrich Krieger,at Issue Project Room's Floating Points festival and the No Idea festival. In another life, she was a founding member of Mercury Rev, with whom she composed, performed, recorded, produced and toured from 1989 through 1998, earning numerous critical accolades and a gold record for 1998's Deserters' Songs. At 2009's All Tomorrow's Parties Thorpe has recently re-emerged with the Mercury Rev alter-ego Harmony Rockets, performing their cult-classic Paralyzed Mind of the Arch Angel Void. Thorpe is currently one half of the flute and feedback duo thenumber46, with media artist Philip White, and can be heard as a member of The Wounded Knees, D2 Affinity with Chuck Johnson and occasionally mucking it up with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. www.suzannethorpe.com
Bonnie Jones is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with sound and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. In performances Jones plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals and uses projected text and live, improvised, writing techniques. Her collaborators include Joe Foster in Korea (English), Chris Cogburn & Liz Tonne (NINA), Andrea Neumann, and Andy Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a interdisciplinary performance group. Jones has performed her work in the US, Europe and Asia, and has appeared in the ErstQuake Festival (NYC), No Idea Festival (TX), Cha’ ak’ ab Paaxil Festival (Mexico), and High Zero Festival (MD). Jones has received several awards and recognitions including a Fulbright Fellowship, Meet the Composer grants, and an artist residency at STEIM in Amsterdam. She is currently an MFA candidate at Bard College’s Milton Avery School for Fine Arts. www.bonniejones.wordpress.com
Bonnie Jones
Gill Arno
photo credit: Bill Owen
photo credit: Bill Owen
Suzanne Thorpe
Ian M. Fraser and Jesse Kudler